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I just ran into this issue today and honestly a little surprised I haven’t run into it before.
The problem was with a font stack that I wanted to try out:
font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, "Segoe UI", Arial, sans-serif;
If a user has Helvetica Neue or Helvetica, that’s fantastic! This is likely to be the case if they’re on a Mac.
On Windows 7 and 8, Segoe UI is install...

Ten years ago today I wrote a colour contrast checker. I put together this tool because, at the time, I needed to check the contrast between two values and the tool I used to use was buggy and then stopped working.
The code I put together was extremely hacky—a combination of 3rd-party scripts and ill-architected JavaScript. I just needed something that worked.
In the beginning, you could s...

For a couple years now, I’ve wanted to do an online version of the SMACSS Workshop—one that people can buy and download any time they want. I’ve hosted a couple online workshops (thanks e4h!) but I wasn’t happy with the videos that resulted from it. I streamed from home which resulted in poor audio and a crappy backdrop. (Which was all my fault, not e4h!)
More recently, I partnered up ...

“Front End Dev isn’t just JavaScript. FED is a melting pot of design & dev skills to implement accessible UIs to accepted standards.” — Matt Hill
When it comes to development on Shopify Admin, we have—up until recently—only had two specializations: designers and engineers. There is a third specialization, however, that has had a tough time finding a solid home: front-end...